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... ancient civilization , it concerns the vast majority of human beings . It has always been possible for a sage to ... ancients but our possibilities of enjoying it are immeasurably greater . The same argument might be SCIENCE AND ...
... ancient civilization , it concerns the vast majority of human beings . It has always been possible for a sage to ... ancients but our possibilities of enjoying it are immeasurably greater . The same argument might be SCIENCE AND ...
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... ancient Babylonian observations . With regard to arithmetic , the con- tinuation of Babylonian and Egyptian influences is very striking . The Greek preference for expressing ordinary fractions as the sum of fractions with numerator ...
... ancient Babylonian observations . With regard to arithmetic , the con- tinuation of Babylonian and Egyptian influences is very striking . The Greek preference for expressing ordinary fractions as the sum of fractions with numerator ...
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... activity of Arabic - writing scholars consisted in the translation of Greek works and their assimilation , they did far more than that . They did not simply transmit ancient knowledge , they created a new EAST AND WEST 101.
... activity of Arabic - writing scholars consisted in the translation of Greek works and their assimilation , they did far more than that . They did not simply transmit ancient knowledge , they created a new EAST AND WEST 101.
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